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A React Rendering Misconception

In which we learn how often React renders components.
Chris Thorn
April 5, 2017
- React
- Performance
- Web
Positioning elements on the web with CSS

A guide on how to position an element in CSS is sometimes really a choice about what side effects are most acceptable.
Joshua Ogle, Eric Bailey & Elaina Natario
April 4, 2017
- Design
- CSS
Canimal: How we over engineered drinking La Croix

Who doesn’t love La Croix? No one. We at thoughtbot agree and consume our fair share, but who consumes the most? Find out how we over engineered drinking La Croix to discover our top consumer.
Tony DiPasquale
April 3, 2017
- La Croix
- Arduino
- IOT
- Hardware
Decorating ActiveRecord

Avoid some tricky edge cases when decorating ActiveRecord models.
Joël Quenneville
March 31, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
- Rails
Modeling a Paginated API as a Lazy Stream

Pagination of APIs is a performance optimization trick. As a consumer, you may want to model things with a lazy stream instead.
Joël Quenneville
March 29, 2017
- Web
- Ruby
Tell Me When It Closes

Introducing our new service - get notified when something closes on GitHub without getting lost in noisy discussions.
Chris Toomey
March 28, 2017
- News
- Git
Writing Semantic Markup

Writing semantic markup for the web.
Joshua Ogle
March 28, 2017
- Design
Getting started with Neat 2.0, a lightweight and flexible Sass grid

If you like Sass, Neat 2.0 brings some awesome features that will make creating semantic websites and apps faster and easier. – A lightweight and flexible Sass grid from the folks at thoughtbot.
Will H McMahan
March 27, 2017
- Design
- Open Source
- Web
- Sass
- Bourbon
- Neat
Extending Elm Native UI with JavaScript

How to add extra UI functionality to your Elm Native UI project.
Jon Yurek
March 27, 2017
- Code
- Elm
- JavaScript
- Mobile
Learning Vim in a Week

From the Boston Vim Meetup, Mike Coutermarsh shows how to get set up, and eventually productive, with Vim.
Thom Obarski
March 24, 2017
- Vim
- Boston
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